The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-10-29
IN THE LABOR WORLD.
Specially Compiled for the Toilersby an nd
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"A strike in the coke regions is anticipat-
ed at an early day,
THE house carpenters at Easton have
sufficient work TO keep them busy all winter.
The Lehigh Valley Shops at Hazleton
employ about 500 mechanics and laborers,
and work s brisk.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has made a voluntary advance of ten cents
per ton TO its miners In the Lykens Valley
collerieS. This does not apply the colleries
in the Shamokin region.
-$400,000 was reported by the finance
committee, to haye been expended last year
by the General Treasurer of the X. of i.
Il is large amount Of MONEY and should
have accomplished much good.
For the week ending on the 22nd inst,
there were 90,305 tons of coal shipped over
the l.. & S. II. "A total to date of 4,020, ,16l
tons, showing an increase as compared with
same date last year Of 36,gT5 tons.
For the week ending Oct. 22nd, there
were 155. .943 tons of coal shipped over the
Lehgh Valley railroad making total to
date of 6, 1856. .239 tons, and showing an in
crease of 433, ,225 tons comparedwith same
date last year.
The Knights of Labor show their prln-
ciples in the present Lehigh coal strike by
sending aid TO miners who are fghting
against the oppression of coal barons.
Correct, if the present fight is won by the
miners it will be victory to be proud
of.
"A locomotive engineer says that loco
motives take the hay foyer just as quickly
as men do. They clog up and can't breathe
just as if they had the catarrh. He further
says that of two engines made on the same
model and at the same shop one Is flyer
and the other is a duffer.
SO great is the demand tor anthracite
coal cars that lumber cars are being fenced
up with boards and used Much slatey
coal is going to market, and more or less
of IL is subject to dockage or return. In
the urgent requirements considerable re-
fuse coal is finding its way into market.
English locomotive builders have been
compelled to adopt the American pattern
IN many respects in order to control their
Continental traffic The ideas of Ameri-
can mechanics are psrmeating foreign
workshops, and the stubborn adherents to
old methods haYe been obliged to admit
that much is to be learned on this side of
the water.
There are 20 blast furnaces in and about
Pittsburg 35 rolling mills, 20 steel works,
10 window-glass works, 81 tiint-gass works
and II green-glass works The blast furn-
aces make 100000 tons of iron pear year,
the rolling mills, 575, 900 tons; the steel
works, 100000 tons; the plate-glass works,
2.250,000 square feet; the window-glass
works, 500, 900 boxes.
-Pardee & Co. have been working their
~ e.. n r
this number, twenty-five are Italians. When
they quit work they are escorted to their
homes by policemen, each carrying q rife.
No attempt has been made to interfere with
contract work. At AtJeanesvilleonly enough
coal was mined to supply the machine shops
and the local trade.
Despite the talk of dullness in railroad
building some more new roads have been
projected. Philadelphia capitalists are en-
gagged in the Lizard Creek Road, in the Le-
high regions. A big road is to be built in
Mississippi. Illinois has $500 miles of rail-
road, and in this respect leads all other
States. The Legislature of that State is
very severe on State roads, but outside
roads running through the State are making
money.
Tho coal barons of the Lehigh region
are becoming desperate in their efforts to
whip the men into submission. They tried
every means to scare them and have as
many times failed. The latest move is the
blacklist as practiced at Jeddo within the
past few days. Here the men found en-
ployment under Contractor Church. The
company found it could not starye the men
out and as means TO bring into submission
had all who formerly worked for them dis
charged. This last act OH the part of the
company is direct and open violation of
the laws of the United States, and is pun
ishable by fine and Imprisonment. Halle
ton Stdddrd. This is only one of the many
tyrannical methods employed by corporate
powers to drag down the laborer.